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  1. Van_der_Voort_4

    How did you decide on your trading strategy or method of trading?

    You don't know in advance. You look at different interpretations of what you learn from books,then you start working on your own concepts,but there will be little success in them.From frustration you will hit the wall and then quit.Only after again you stand up something inside pushes you in...
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    Which strategy would you trade?

    I can not,knowledge is this field is very,very expensive It takes years and eventually the correct interpretations lead to answers. I am in final stages of coding and will update on my thread about this when all is ready Robust systems have draw downs,they recover from them in all tests,i...
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    How much does it cost to start a hedge fund?

    slow down there tiger,if you got the goodies money will find you,it will only take longer No i don't want to meet,invest,i just have one question.Where in Eastern Europe are you? I am myself from and living in same part of the World. Note to your friends. If they have an opportunity to read...
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    American Made (2017)

    Barry could've been flying for TWA many years and bring home a paycheck,but he chose a different path.Some people's lives are like this, they are restless souls. Quite interesting to watch and a good screenplay
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    Developing IntraDay Strategies Using ATR for Risk

    Forget the money.Look at this from logical point of view. You are in the business where score is kept by catching even small trends.How far will these trends move and how long is as important as putting stop loss.Whipsaws that will get you.What is out there that reduces whipsaw?Perhaps stop loss...
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    A little thoughts on my experience so far

    Congratulations on perseverance,thank you for sharing your story Good wishes for the future!
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    Help With Evaulating Intra-Day Trading Systems

    OK let's look at this your largest winner and largest loser are steady average loser does not fall far from largest loser,but average winner does differ substantially from largest winner you have 16 consecutive losses if they were same as largest loser would be 16 X 404.28 =$ 6468.5,but your...
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    Which strategy would you trade?

    Can you explain a little more about why you want to have longer draw-downs? it comes from experience I know just one robust strategy,but it is robust in small time frame and larger time frame.So if i get more time spend in a losing period and you don't imho there is a chance it is curve...
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    Xela: More Likes than Posts!!

    thank you for your honesty perhaps you will find someone else being serious about this journey refreshing https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/is-anyone-consistently-profitable-with-the-es.286440/page-8#post-4031520
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    Which strategy would you trade?

    there is no logic to the explanation,it comes from experience I only looked only at 4th scenario,at first i was sure OP is talking about 4 to 8 months test, time to recover to break even is too short to have that many losing trades without this being curve fitted and effected somehow by stop...
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    Xela: More Likes than Posts!!

    this is a feedback section,so i will say what i think That Xela is indeed a female,but i have this impression that her and NoDoji ................ we like good mystery,don't we
  12. Van_der_Voort_4

    Which strategy would you trade?

    4th,time in a draw down as a measure of robustness I would not trade any of them with real money At first i was sure this was over 5-8 months period,then i read your post again 12 to 14 trades on average over 22 trading days period with 1% draw down from the final account balance. I would...
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    The 'Mother of All Advice' list!

    Stay away from day trading,short term trading,you will not make it If you are that driven to succeed you probably will achieve something in every other field of your choice If you need to be in the market buy new technologies companies when they IPO and hold it for years,with these profits...
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    Which users' posts have benefited you the most?

    I am talking about a guy who had a slip up,my theory is he was in drawdown in what he was doing and needed an ego boost and he wrote something that made me think about what was being said.Individual very smart but emotionally not there yet from task at hand point of view,under pressure. When i...
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    Which users' posts have benefited you the most?

    I could not and never tried either
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    Which users' posts have benefited you the most?

    none of the above Very clever poster,I won't put name here in the open. You need to be here a member for years and years to know whom i am talking about,sometimes i think about him as this member had huge influence on me and i never even replied to one of his posts. Thank you
  17. Van_der_Voort_4

    The reason I dont use any indicators

    what other site? This is Mtrader(Madoff trader), "I am nobody" new alias.Come back to me in few months and tell me i am wrong.Schweiz means Swiss,which is multilingual country,speaking French and German and Belgium is similar as they speak French and Dutch.It all about language syntax and...
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    New Surf Alias

    Pitchblack, i am nobody, Mtrader (Madoff_trader) same guy behind all screen names, making 500% with easy ,LOL ,you can read it all on "Renaissance keeps making billionaires" thread he crawled back to tell us how many aliases Msurfer has (his post in other feedback thread) LOL
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